Ein-sam-ke-it… is that how you say it?
THE BASICS
Name: Lupin
Gender: Female
Stamped As: China
ABOUT YOU
What is your basic goal in life? What would you and your rival most likely be competing for?
My basic goal in life… hum. That is a tough one. Haha, not really. MY GOAL IS TO SUCCEED in whatever I happen to be focusing on at the moment-doing well at my job, saving money for college, disproving the theory of relativity, proving that alternate universes can exist outside of theoretical math, etc. I want to not just do something, I want to beat it into the ground, and have others acknowledge my success, but that could be optional.
As for what my rival and I would be competing for, it would be recognition and the amount that we accomplished, of course! If he ate five hamburgers and seven sides of fries only to puke it up later, I’d eat nine of each and do my best to hold it in. If he got a hundred blue ribbons and was featured in three articles in a newspaper, I’d go for two hundred and a news conference and a story in Times Magazine.
Haha, this reminds me of the only rival I have ever had-back in ninth grade, one kid and I shared the same geography/history class, and we competed for the most correct answers and best scores to the point where our teachers said, “Okay you two, stop answering questions all the time. Let someone else have a go.” He beat me most of the time, but it was really fun and it encouraged me to do well.
Would you taunt your rival openly?
Not in the sense that I would make fun of them for losing, but I would certainly provoke them to do better or try to do better next time.
To do something else other than that would be very rude, and totally not be in the spirit of true competition. Rivalries are supposed to make you strive not to be just better than the other person, but become better than yourself as well, and overall, be fun and give you some purpose in life, if not some focus or direction at the moment.
Would you taunt your rival quietly or anonymously?
Certainly not out in public to humiliate them or draw attention to ourselves, and anonymously would be childish, but maybe just between the two of us where no one else could listen in? I would probably say something like, “Haha, look who beat you. >) I triple dog dare you to try to beat me next time.”
Would you resort to dirty means to beat them?
Nah. I’d do my best to beat them without having to do that and would feel extremely guilty if I did anything less than that.
Let’s say you lost to them. Would you be a good sport about it?
I would not believe it for a little bit, maybe sulk or try to protest against it, but come to terms with it in about… a minute or two, and mumble to them later on, “Good job,” when everyone else was out of ear shot and not paying attention anymore.
If you won, would you boast?
A little bit. Kind of go, “Haha, yes! Victory~! Next match, you had better be ready, because I bet I’ll win again!” and then be done and over with it.
ABOUT YOUR RIVAL
Would you prefer them to be sneaky or obvious about competing with you?
Obvious in that I know they’re competing with me, but not obvious in that the whole entire world and it’s neighbor knows that we’re competing. I dislike spectators.
Do you want them to be good at whatever they’re doing? Some like a challenge, after-all.
Well, of course! It wouldn’t be much of a rivalry if I won all of the time. It would be too boring, and they might get discouraged if they lost by a huge margin-plus, I’d feel like it wasn’t even worth it if they didn’t try. Not that I’d give up on them immediately.
I’d be the kind of person who would break into their home, kidnap them, drag them to the track and make them run laps at 5:00AM while making them memorize or recite things like the periodic table of elements and telling them that if they wanted to be a proper rival, they had better do more than what they were doing through a megaphone.
How would you want them to act if they won?
Be kind of like how I would be: “Haha, yes! Victory~! Next match, you had better be ready, because I bet I’ll win again!”
How would you want them to act if they lost?
Do it with some grace. If they act kind of immature like I would, okay, that’s fine. If they act mature, that’s even better, because it would irk me and I would do even more to beat them the next round. If they acted horribly, I’d bash their face in and proclaim out loud that they were no longer my rival and didn’t deserve to be such anymore because like I said, rivals strive to better themselves and each other, not degrade.
Would you like him/her to be your friend after it was all said and done?
Sure, why not? Competition is fun after all, and what else could bring people together more happily than good memories, fun times, and acceptance/acknowledgement of what you have done and gone through to get where you are?
If you found out they cheated, would you be upset? Would you alert others about it, or just suck it up?
Oh, hell yes I would be upset! I would be enraged, running up to them and starting some sort of rant about how I thought that they were better than that and treasured our rivalry, most likely crying in the middle of it before running off.
This may not relate to your goal, but let’s say... There’s a wonderful prize for winning! Your rival has a very sick mother and needs the prize money to pay for the operation! Would you lose on purpose?
NO. That would not be fair to either of us, and it would only humiliate us both in the long run. I’d do my best to win, and if I did, I would go, “Ha, I win-now take the money and get to your mum. We’ll argue about this later. Shoo!”
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Anything Else?:
Um… not anything that I can think of. So, no.